Ivan Safranchuk

25 September 2006

Dr. Ivan Safranchuk joined the organization in July 2001 to open a branch office in Russia, WSI Moscow, aimed at providing the Russian media and public with independent, unfiltered information about international relations, in particular U.S.-Russian security relations.

A wellknown nuclear analyst in Russia, he spent four years at the PIR Center in Moscow before joining WSI, including as the director of the Institute's "Nuclear Weapons and Their Future" project.

Safranchuk has written extensively on nuclear weapons and arms control issues in both Russian and English. Some of his publications include: "An Array of Threats to Russia" in Assessing the Threats (ed. John Newhouse), CDI, Washington, D.C., 2002; Contemporary Russian Military Journalism, Moscow, 2003; and "Tactical Nuclear Weapons in the Modern World: A Russian Perspective" in Tactical Nuclear Weapons (ed. Brian Alexandre and Alistair Millar) Brassey's Inc. 2003. He frequently contributes op-eds to Russian and international papers such as Nezavisimay Gazeta, Vremay Novostey, Nezavisimoe Voennoe Obozreniey, Moscow Times, and the International Herald Tribune.

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